RECENT NEWS- CURRENT STUDENTS
Clint Needham's wind ensemble work Legacies was recently awarded 1st
Prize in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In
addition to the prize, Clint has received a publishing contract from
Manhattan Beach Music.
Joni Greene was awarded third prize for her work Moonscape Awakening in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In addition to the prize, Manhattan Beach has offered publication.
Kids Compose Recordings Posted
Elliott Bark's Winter Sketches was awarded first place in the Region V (East) of the 2009 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission.
Brendan Faegre's Tihai for percussion quartet was selected for the 57th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Press Release
Sang Mi Ahn's Psalm 30 and KyungA Ahn's Midnight Wind have received honorable mention for consideration for the Libby Larsen Prize at 2009 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).
Pictures from Hammer and Nail 2009
2009 "DEAN'S PRIZE " COMPOSITION COMPETITION- Winners
Category A (Orchestra, $500 prize):
Austin Jaquith, Blaze of Autumn (Five Images from Fall)
Category B (Chamber, $1000 prize and commission for a new work to be premiered by NME in 2009-2010):
Teddy Niedermaier, Liturgies (submitted work)
Category C (Undergraduate, $300 prize):
Max Tholenaar-Maples, Me and the Modern World
Category D (Electronic, $300 prize):
Adam Haws, Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit
2009 GEORGINA JOSHI COMPOSITION COMMISSION PRIZE ($1000 prize and commission for a new work for voice and ensemble to be premiered by NME in 2009-2010):
Eric Lindsay, The Real Mother Goose (submitted work)
2009 MRS. HONG PHAM MEMORIAL RECOGNITION AWARD FOR NEW MUSIC PERFORMANCE ($500 prize):
Eric Allen, cello
The Mrs. Hong Pham Memorial Recognition Award for New Music Performance is an annual prize awarded by the composition department to the performer who, through collaboration and performance, made the most significant overall contribution to the presentation of new music by student composers in the Jacobs School of Music.
Doctoral composition student, Clint Needham, has recently signed with publisher Theodore
Presser Company. Nine of his works are currently available from the company with several
other contracts already accepted for future works.
One of America's oldest music publishers, Theodore Presser also publishes the catalogs of
Charles Ives, Steven Stucky, George Tsontakis, Chen Yi, and Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, among
numerous others.
More information can be found at http://www.presser.com/News/
‘Kids Compose’ and listen eagerly to music compositions
by Peter Jacobi, Herald Times Online
Clint Needham received a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his work Chamber Symphony.
Elliott Bark has been named winner of the 2008 Kuttner Quartet Composition Competition. His piece, Winter Sketches will be performed during spring 2009 by the Kuttner Quartet (the scholarship string quartet at IU).
Brendan Faegre's The Circular Ruins for violin, cello, and piano was awarded 1st place in the Beethoven Club 2009 Student Composition Contest. The piece will be performed by the Luna Nova New Music Ensemble at the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, June 24th-27th, in Memphis, TN.
Brian Ciach's Water Clocks and William Guerin's Synecdoche will be performed at the SEAMUS 2009 National Conference, which will be hosted by Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 16, 17 and 18.
Clint Needham was selected as a winner of this years Quintet Attacca/Center for Chicago Programs Call for Scores. Clint's "Five Movements for Wind Quintet" will be performed by Quintet Attacca on Sunday March 29, 2009 at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL.
Eric Lindsay has been selected for participation in the June in Buffalo festival. His quartet, "The One Best System", will be performed by one of their resident ensembles the first week of June 2009.
Eric Lindsay has been awarded a 2009 commissioning grant from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress. The commission will result in a 18' chamber work for the ADORNO Ensemble in San Francisco, to be premiered in ADORNO's 2009-2010 season.
Joni Greene's Autumn Reflections has been selected for the 2009 "Essentially Choral Reading Session." From a field of 82 new works submitted, VocalEssence and American Composers Forum have chosen seven composers to participate. The public is invited to attend a working rehearsal of their new music for voices and instruments on Saturday, April 18. Essentially Choral provides an opportunity for emerging composers to develop their skills in writing for choral ensemble, either a cappella or with instruments. The program is co-sponsored by American Composers Forum and VocalEssence with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation.
Clint Needham's "Chamber Symphony" will be broadcast on Counterstream Radio as part of the American Composers Orchestra Season Opener Concert. The dates and times of the broadcasts are: Thursday 2/12/2009 at 9 p.m. & Sunday 2/15/2009 at 3 p.m.
Clint Needham received Second Prize in the 2008 SCI/ASCAP National Student Composition Competition. In addition to the prize SCI will commission a new work to be premiered at the SCI National Conference, as well as inclusion of the commissioned piece on the SCI CD series.
Clint Needham received honorable mention in The Pittsburgh New Music
Ensemble's 2009 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition.
Chris Renk's "Through Doorways Between Dreams" has been selected as the winner for the 2009 Musical Arts Youth Orchestra Competition.
Elliott Bark's "Sorrow" for solo flute has been selected for the 60x60 Project (2008 Midwest Mix) by Vox Novus. The piece was played at the Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) Festival at the Lewis University, IL. on 10/18/08 and at The 2nd Kentucky New Music Festival at the University of Kentucky on 11/13/2008.
The Wright State University Saxophone Quartet is releasing Chris Serena's Green no. 26 for saxophone quartet on CD, to be commercially released.
Elizabeth Ogonek has been awarded the Burnett/Masters Junior Scholarship for 2008-09.
Clint Needham received the 2008 Young Composers' Award from Symphony in C (formerly the Haddonfield Symphony). The winning work, "Radiant Nation," will be performed at the Rutgers Center for the Arts in Camden, NJ on December 13 by Symphony in C with Rossen Milanov conducting.
KyungA Ahn's piece, Sailing to the Deep Blue Sea for 9 Brass Players, was awarded an Excellence Composition Award by IBCMF (International Brass Chamber Music Festival).
Laminar Flow for solo wind by Gabriel Lubell has been chosen by Levande
Musik in Sweden for performance in the famous glass elevator of the
Gothia Hotel in Gothenburg Sweden. Along with 10 other 30-second solo
pieces by composers from around the world, it will be played on Sep.
25-28 2008 by live musicians during the Göteborg International Book fair,
which is the largest cultural event of the Nordic region.
Clint Needham received the 2008 Heckscher
Composition Prize from Ithaca College for his chamber work "Axioms".
Recent winning composers of this prize include Jennifer Higdon and
Indiana University's Professor of Computer Music Jeffrey Hass. In
addition to the prize the Ithaca College School of Music New Music
Ensemble will give a performance of "Axioms" on April 14, 2009.
Jeff Stanek was awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA),
an artists' community located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
He will be in residence there in November, 2008 along with around 20 other fellows in the
visual arts, writing, and music.
Max Grafe's Fresco for
orchestra is going to be performed by the Montana State University at Bozeman's orchestra on their new music concert in February 2009.
RECENT NEWS: ALUMNI
John Paul’s string trio Chara was performed by the new music group Fear No Music at Oregon’s first Day of Culture in October. The group will also premier Paul’s score to FW Murnau’s 1930 silent film City Girl, which will be shown at the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival in May. Paul is a recipient of a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Christopher Cook's Sun, Moon and Talia, Laura Kramer's Warped, and John Supko's This Window Makes Me Feel will be performed at the SEAMUS 2009 National Conference, which will be hosted by Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 16, 17 and 18.
Laura Kramer's Warped for alto saxophone and electronics was selected for inclusion in the
8th Annual International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR09) as part of the Annual New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton, March 21, 2009.
Jeff Stanek was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He will be in residence at the Colony in New Hampshire for most of February 2009 finishing a new orchestra piece.
Matthew Peterson received the Fulbright Award and will be a visiting composer at the Gotlandstonsättarskola (Gotland Composer School, Visby, Gotland, Sweden), where he will write a new chamber opera for performances in May 2009 and spring 2010.
Sarah Gibson won the 2008 Victor Herbert ASCAP Young Composers Award for her piece "Let Me Go" for Solo Violin and Choir.
Eric Nathan was awarded the William Schuman Prize in the 56th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Press release
Yoomi Paick has won the Libby Larsen Prize, 2008 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) with her piece "Crossover."
